Re: PAB The Multiple Monopoly Approach
John Charles Broomfield (jbroom@outremer.com)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:06:28 -0400
Bob Helfant wrote:
> At 11:28 AM 2/27/98 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
> >the pen to change. If Amazon.com is forced out of .com because of
> >some policy change by NSI it will cost them hundreds of thousands of
> >dollars. This extra expense has no relationship to the $50 it might
> >cost them to register in .shop, for example.
>
> How many times have companies had to change TLDs because of NSI policy
> changes. This sounds like a "sky is falling" scenario. On the other hand,
> GlobeComm changed TLDs about 8 months ago and did not have to spend
> hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was more like zero dollars.
>
> Bob Helfant
You mean that you didn't have to throw away stationary that had the
"old"
TLD on it? You mean you didn't have to redo publicity with the "old" TLD
on it? You mean you didn't have to inform EVERYONE who had your "old"
address that it had changed and here was the new one? You mean you
didn't
get in touch with those webpages that had links to yours telling them
that
they should re-do the links? You mean you didn't have to resubmit to all
the search engines all your pages again?
If it was like zero dollars, then did the company actually have ANY
activity
before the change of TLD?
Yours, John Broomfield.